Life Poetically Embraced

By R. Queen

Poems in this collection cover many aspects of life at different times such as unexpected chaos, tough times, blissful moments, memorable events, time wasted, and time well spent.

With this collection of poetry, no one should feel alone.

Some may make you cry, some may make you question why.

Some may make you smile, or have you thinking for a while.

Whatever situation you may face, it can have a poetic embrace.

This book is perfectly flawed, just like life it is embraced. There may be a word or 2 left out and maybe even a misspelling, they are not highlighted, but if you want to find them you are invited.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638602446

Book preview

Now and Laters

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Bubble Gum

It started with a smile or a shy hello, and for one generation, it was bubble gum, and now and laters that created friends as well as haters. The ones who wanted some but didn’t get any.

If you had candy, you were cool and had friends to walk home with after school.

Not much to worry about at all, except who sat by you and if the person you liked, liked you too.

We all grew up, and life got real. Kids, marriages, divorces, bad relationships, successes, failures, and paying bills.

As you go, you learn of those who appreciate and of those who annihilate and manipulate.

Things in life go from easy to hard, to satisfying, to misleading and troublesome, and to irritating and thinking you may never overcome.

Things can make you want to complain or even feel you may go insane. You look for understanding when things become so demanding.

One day, it all becomes clear. All you have to do is be sincere (be true to yourself). Knowing who you are after the pain has left its scar. You realize that you are stronger.

Why this and why that, you question no longer.

Things change and time goes on. It will never be as simple as now and laters and bubble gum.

Life is too short, so appreciate where you’ve been and where you came from.

A Plan in Place

Peering out the window, noticing branches on trees swaying in the wind

Sunlight creating sparkles on vehicles parked nearby

Such a beautiful day or so I thought

I opened the front door and was slapped with humidity

Oh, the deception of the view is now being felt in the worst way

Proving that sometimes looks can be deceiving

Just like people, you can let them suck the life out of you, or take a step back to get a plan in place

Get ahead of their stupidity and

Walk away with grace and dignity

It’s Not Always the Way It Seems

Sometimes things get rough, and you deal with them the best way you know how. And it seems that’s still not enough.

A bottomless pit is where you may fall, or you have a mountain to climb that seems way too tall

What is this that keeps making us feel defeated, unimportant,